Catton, Eleanor,  1985- <br/><br/>
The luminaries / 
Eleanor Catton. 
 - London :  Granta,  2014. 
 - 832 pages :  illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ;  20 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published: 2013. 
<br/><br/> It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. 
<br/><br/> The Man Booker Prize 2013 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847084323 (pbk.) :  £9.99 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New Zealand--History--1853-1876--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Historical.